Dietary Supplements Nutrition Facts Labels

The supplement facts label includes important information regarding the ingredients serving size number of servings and nutritional value of a supplement.

Dietary supplements nutrition facts labels. Ingredients when selecting a. The serving size must be clearly displayed on the label. Dietary supplement labels essential differences nutritional ingredients and their sources such as the part of the plant for a herbal product are listed in the supplement facts panel and not in nutrition facts 12. The manufacturer or distributor is responsible for this label information and the office of dietary supplements ods does not check or verify that it conforms to u s.

1 the statement of identity name of the dietary supplement 2 the net quantity of contents statement amount of the dietary supplement 3 the nutrition labeling 4 the ingredient list and 5 the name and place of business of the manufacturer packer or distributor. To the untrained eye nutrition labels and dietary supplement labels look very similar. Food and drug. The new label format has been added to our nutrition label generator.

The dietary supplement health and education act of 1994 the dshea amended the act in part by. But if you look more closely you will see that nutrition facts and dietary supplement facts are indeed quite different. Learn more about the changes to the nutrition fact label format. Notably by requiring that most foods including dietary supplements bear nutrition labeling.

To use please select the new 2016 option in step 1 below. The fda recently finalized changes for a new nutrition fact label format that will be required starting january 1 2020. The dietary supplement label database dsld is intended to capture all information from the labels of products sold as dietary supplements in the united states.